News from our PGR community - May-July 2024

Posted on 29 July 2024

We are always excited to announce and celebrate the achievements of our doctoral researchers in Language and Linguistic Science. Below are some of the highlights of the period May-July 2024.

Victoria Noble presented Counting sheep, fruits and bloods: What is the interaction between perceptual and linguistic systems? at the Pint of Science Festival, The Winning Post, on 13 — 15 May 2024. Details.

Lu Jin (with Shiyang Fu) made a presentation called: The semblance between simplex numerals and complex numerals in Mandarin Chinese at the North East Syntax Seminar (NESS), University of Aberdeen, on 24 May 2024.

Lauren Harrington has passed her PhD viva with minor corrections. Lauren’s thesis is entitled: Towards Improving Transcripts of Audio Recordings in the Criminal Justice System.

At this year's Festival of Ideas, Ben Gibb-Reid, Heather Turner, Jamie Adams, Rosario Neyra and Victoria Noble held the ‘Mind Your Language’ panel discussion. Sunday, 9 June 2024.

Buhan Guo (with Nino Grillo, Sven Mattys, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett, and Giuseppina Turco) presented a paper called The Garden Path Leading to Intonational Phonology at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) in Seoul, South Korea on 27 June 2024.

Buhan Guo (with Nino Grillo, Sven Mattys, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett, and Giuseppina Turco) also gave a poster presentation entitled The Prosody of Clefted Relatives: A New Window into Prosodic Representations. Abstract available at page 46 of the LabPhon conference proceedings.

Jamie Adams (with Sam Hellmuth and Leah Roberts) gave a poster presentation at Speech Prosody 2024 called Does Tone Impact Mandarin Non-Word Acceptability Judgements?. Abstract.